When a large marine mammal like a whale dies, its body drifts to the ocean floor in a process known as whale fall. For more than a decade, a succession of sea creatures will live off of the whale’s ...

LONG BEACH TOWNSHIP — A dead humpback whale washed ashore at the 130th Street beach in the Beach Haven Terrace section on Friday morning, according to the Marine Mammal Stranding Center in Brigantine.

The “very decomposed” remains of a 55-foot-long whale that washed onto the beach at La Jolla Shores were removed May 14 and will be studied to determine what type of whale it was and why it died, ...

How do you take apart a whale? With flensing knives, meat hooks, plastic sleds and a crowd of people. On Thursday, dozens of volunteers gathered on the Anchorage mudflats to cut apart the 47-foot-long ...

How does an 18-foot-long, 2,000-pound carcass just disappear? That question has puzzled some divers and photographers who regularly plunge into the waters off San Diego. It started earlier this spring ...

Whales are some of the largest known creatures to exist (or, in the case of the blue whale, to have ever existed) on Earth, with some species weighing up to 200 tons—and while many find the mammals ...

The carcass of a sperm whale washed ashore on Nantucket Sunday, prompting recovery operations by officials and wildlife groups, according to a local nonprofit. The whale is male and likely a juvenile, ...

Update, Wednesday: Volunteers with Vulcan Towing in Anchorage helped Museum of Alaska director James Grogan extract almost all of the remaining bones from a fin whale on Cook Inlet mudflats on Tuesday ...

A sunken calf’s disappearance created a mystery in murky waters near San Diego. Trilobites A sunken calf’s disappearance created a mystery in murky waters near San Diego. Credit... Supported by Text ...